I wanted to introduce the Sensei (blue top) amazing person. He s a pottery maker now an dan incredible one, I saw the art gallery. Before was a chef (in fact he came at the camp to cook us deer meat that he hunted himself). And now he s mastering bread making, with an oven he built himself. So he brought us bread in the morning for breakfast (he lived just outside the wood). No wonder everybody call him Sensei (teacher/master). great inspiration. When we met he told me "You italian? Come her, Ill show you Italy!!" and he took me where he kept a 25 years old Ducati motorbike that he obviously polished very often.
The trees of the forest. Sometimes you could here cracks but fortunately no tree fell.
Playing djembe at night etc
Back at the house with other wwoofers.

This is in Hyogo (not too far from Kyoto, where I went to the eco-camp. Rough I can tell. But very interesting, met cool people and lived in the woods for 3 days. I also saw snakes, but harmless. The frogs are tiny tiny (like an inch long) so cute!!!!! We had also some workshops, like an expert came to explain some concept of Chinese medicine and showed us some acupuncture too. Back at the host s house we had our fireworks.

Kyoto again. Picture above is one of the mountain where they light fires the 15th of August to call the ancestors.

OOOps sorry, put the same picture twice. These are temples of Kyoto. No comment...

The night view is Hakodate from the top. Lovely town, with a morning market of veggies and the best fish in Japan. I had the best sushi there. I was overwhelmed by the fish market and the people are very funny.
The little hut? That s were I lived for 10 days when I went wwoofing at this wonderful family, planting trees on a moutain that had been wrecked by an old owner in the 50s. Every day for lunch and dinner we had gorgeous food from their garden. The mother and the daughter sang me the songs from Studio ghibli with the piano ah ah. And much more, but oo much to tell. I had a great time in Hokkaido. Definetely going back. Ah one of the best memories is the view I had from the place, of the Yotei san, a big volcano in the distance, I fell in love with it. Its a beautiful mountain, isn t it?

Chapter 2

Long time no see!!! ah ah
Sorry about that. Technology was too hard to reach these weeks so I ll make the most of this Kissaten in Nara for updating my digital diary.
Laura was a bit worried for me for a while, but I explained. I wanted to say to everybody that Japan is unbelievably safe to travel alone also for a girl. Very easy and safe, I never feel threatened or insecure, haven t seen any dodgey people, here they dont steal, basically. You can leave your bag on the other side of the a train, nobody will touch it. Plus people are so helpful.... ok ok Ill stop praising and put some photos in here. Ciao!!!!

busy on the mountains

Sorry everybody, I didnt have time to keep the blog updated, I will stay here in Hokkaido on the mountains for a few days more, after I will post pictures and all. Hugs!